Yuppie Supper

Album: Get To Heaven (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • This mainly instrumental song features just a couple lines sung by Jonathan Higgs about setting himself on fire. He explained in a Reddit AMA: "It was a big instrumental that I wrote in the back of a splitter van whilst James Bond was on very loudly. Vocals were very much an afterthought."

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